Category: Genesis to Revelation

  • I KNOW I’LL SEE JESUS SOME DAY

    Avis B. Christiansen, 1895–1985 When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory. (Colossians 3:4) Lord, we wait for Thine appearing;“Even so,” Thy people say;Bright the prospect is, and cheering,Of beholding Thee that day.— Thomas Kelly Heaven is not an invention of the human imagination. It is as…

  • MORNING & EVENING

    It has been thought by some that as long as Peter lived, the fountain of his tears began to flow whenever he remembered his denying his Lord. It is not unlikely that it was so, for his sin was very great, and grace in him had afterwards a perfect work. This same experience is common…

  • WHAT DO YOU SEE IN YOUR CLOUDS?

    My Utmost For His Highest Behold, He cometh with clouds. Rev. 1:7. In the Bible clouds are always connected with God. Clouds are those sorrows or sufferings or providences, within or without our personal lives, which seem to dispute the rule of God. It is by those very clouds that the Spirit of God is…

  • AFTER THE SUNSET

    Virgil P. Brock, 1887–1978 Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. (1 Corinthians 13:12) The ability to see “beyond the sunset”—to anticipate the glories of God’s tomorrow—enables a…

  • MORNING & EVENING

    “Nevertheless,”—As if, notwithstanding all the foolishness and ignorance which David had just been confessing to God, not one atom the less was it true and certain that David was saved and accepted, and that the blessing of being constantly in God’s presence was undoubtedly his. Fully conscious of his own lost estate, and of the…

  • AFTER OBEDIENCE – WHAT?

    My Utmost For His Highest And straightway He constrained His disciples to get into the ship, and to go to the other side.… Mark 6:45–52 . We are apt to imagine that if Jesus Christ constrains us, and we obey Him, He will lead us to great success. We must never put our dreams of…

  • AFTER

    Words and Music by N. B. Vandall, 1896–1970 … weeping may remain for a night, but rejoicing comes in the morning. (Psalm 30:5) How much more content we are if we know that after some trying or painful experience, there will be pleasure and a reward. Such thoughts help to spur on the athlete in…

  • MORNING & EVENING

    Remember this is the confession of the man after God’s own heart; and in telling us his inner life, he writes, “So foolish was I, and ignorant.” The word “foolish,” here, means more than it signifies in ordinary language. David, in a former verse of the Psalm, writes, “I was envious at the foolish when…

  • THE WAY TO KNOW

    My Utmost For His Highest If any man will do His will, he shall know of the doctrine … John 7:17. The golden rule for understanding spiritually is not intellect, but obedience. If a man wants scientific knowledge, intellectual curiosity is his guide; but if he wants insight into what Jesus Christ teaches, he can…

  • FACE TO FACE

    Carrie E. Breck, 1855–1934 Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when He appears we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is. Everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as He…